Happy new year from Cutstuff.net! People come and go in our community but that does not stop Mega Man 8-bit Deathmatch from staying alive and up to date. This version includes a couple of new features but mostly fixes and a very important update to the next Zandronum version (bundled with the game). Grab it from the download link below or click here to view the list of changes first!

Mega Man fans rejoice, as Mega May continues to explode with new Mega Man content and announcements! As expected, Cutstuff continue the celebrations with a new version of Mega Man 8-bit Deathmatch! This update includes Mega Man & Bass content, a game that was released on the Super Nintendo originally in Japan only but eventually made it’s way onto GBA around the world. Did you know: Capcom made Mega Man & Bass on the SNES for kids who weren’t rich enough to own a Playstation to play Mega Man 8?

A full list of changes and discussion can be found on the forums. Enjoy!

Celebrate Mega May with a new version of MM8BDM, coming soon!

MM8BDM gets better and better with a new version! This update is all about refining old content, and includes many updates and fixes to maps and weapons. The highlight of this patch though is the inclusion of replacement maps! Out with the old and in with the new! Shadow Man, Top Man, Gemini Man, Wave Man, Spring Man and Burst Man have all been blessed with all new arenas.

But that’s not all! Many older maps have received significant layout and quality changes. Click here to check out the full change log, or download below and check out the new additions for yourself!

After a long period of silence, Mega Man 8-bit Deathmatch rises again with a brand new expansion! This time it’s Mega Man 8′s turn to get 3d deathmatch treatment. New weapons, skins, maps and much much more await you in this version of Mega Man 8-bit Deathmatch!

Praise must go out to the new MM8BDM team (lead by Ivory) who put this together. Without them this expansion would have not have received the love and care Mega Man 8 deserves. Special thanks must also go out to the Zandronum team who continue to support Skulltag’s mod friendly legacy, allowing us to fix and add new and better things to Mega Man 8-bit Deathmatch.

It has been over a year since the last version of MM8BDM has been released, and since then the MM8BDM team has been working tirelessly on creating new Mega Man 8 themed content for the upcoming release of Mega Man Deathmatch. As we approach the next version, I would like to give you a little sneak peak of what you can expect to see in the near future.

New Features:

New MM8 themed maps to battle in. Astro Man’s maze, Tengu Man’s air ship and Search Man’s jungle are just to name a few!

Two new MM8 boss battles for the singleplayer campaign.

Certain older maps are getting updates, and in some cases, complete remakes!

Many weapon balances and tweaks.

These are some of the standard additions you can expect to see in the next version of MM8BDM. However, many more awesome additions have found their way into this expansion. Stay tuned and get your Mega Busters ready for Mega Man 8-bit Deathmatch version 3!

Surprise!

Now it’s no secret that server and player counts have been dropping lately. As of last week, however, a CutStuff forum user named Human Destroyer has started a weekly get-together full of fragging fun! The weekly mashup runs any mode you vote for, so get down to the thread and say what you want. It was a huge success on its first run, pulling in serverloads of people and running for hours. More to come!

The thread can be found here. It’ll run every Monday as long as people show up! It’s usually vanilla, too, but if the server’s running mods you can find them here. Enjoy!

As a new player, finding and loading the amount of wads required for the average MM8BDM server can be a long and boring chore. Forunately for you, Ivory has compiled a list of the main .wads and .pk3s hosted and you can download them all from the thread on the Cutstuff Forums! Add these in to your MM8BDM if you’re getting wad errors, or even better, download DoomSeeker for an easy way to join MM8BDM servers in a few clicks.

It’s time for another weekly update from Yellow Devil! This time I will be covering another one of my personal favourite modifications, Mega Man X Classes.

As far as I am aware, MMXClasses was produced by TheBladeRoden alone. Featuring all 8 Mavericks from X1, as well as X himself, as playable classes! Classes generally have two weapons, with all of their classic attacks in 3D form. Even the attacks you thought would never happen are in here, Armored Armadillo can perform his flying rolling tackle, Boomer Kuwanger can teleport, there’s even light-dimming punches for Spark Mandrill! There’s a ton of detail here, from full bot support to those little sound effects, and it is really incredible to be able to play the classes not only in 3D, but in 8-bit too.

The purpose of this blog post comes in two forms. First, you should play Mega Man X classes a lot more often! Second, the mod is still lacking some skins, so if you can or know someone who can make a good maverick skin, get workin’!

This is for you man, the one who really wanted that On the Blog Medal.

I am going to introduce myself in the first paragraph of my first blog post like the two before me did. Consistency, you know? I’m Yellow Devil, you probably know me. If not, then I am an old community member who has played since the SGC Demo and has modded since 2010. I was assigned to this position following the departure of SmashBroPlusB, and also because the blog has not been updated for almost two months.

My first post on this blog is about one of personal favourite community-created modes, Bot Apocalypse. Often referred to as BotApoc, the mode was first created by SaviorSword in his custom server. Back then the mode would be run by hand, with the host adding bots and moving players as required. A community modder called Sick Sad World begun coding the mode, which was an attempt to “automate what they had done manually”. The mod split in two a while after coding began due to a “glass ceiling”, which saw another modder, Messatsu, creating the same mode with a few key differences. Sick Sad World’s original modification was finished and released in early October, with Messatsu’s mod being released at a similar time.

But that is enough about what happened, how about a slice of what’s happening?

Sick Sad World’s BotApoc is the ‘true’ BotApoc Savior and T’s Inventions hosted way back then. The mode is played in Team Last Man Standing and it features two teams, one full of players, and one full of bots with a bot leader. The bots are randomly assigned at the start, and all the bots will be of the same robot. The players win when all the bots and their leader are eliminated. The leader wins when he or his bots eliminate the players. There is a real sense of challenge here, as the bots tend to group up and destroy players when given the chance.

Messatsu’s BotApoc is similar, but at the same time adds new features and modifies others. Due to similarities with another of Messatsu’s mods, I will refer to this version as RageBotApoc. The objectives are not edited, but players may find themselves in radically different situations due to other factors. Bot Leaders are given increased health to protect themselves from the players, and they drop M-Tanks on death. Bots drop health on death to encourage the players to take them out. When there is only one player left, the lone man gains a Rage Rune (double firing speed) so that he can make a final attempt at winning. Finally, RageBotApoc has a timer system. If the round lasts for more than five minutes, huge meteors will begin crashing down on the players to speed up the match.

Both versions of BotApoc are a blast in large servers, I recommend trying them both out and hosting them whenever possible!